> One of the key interest of C compared to more recent languages is that everything is explicit. With a finger you can follow the code as it runs and know exact

> One of the key interest of C compared to more recent languages is that everything is explicit. With a finger you can follow the code as it runs and know exactly what is going on and when exactly. I don't agree! There's a lot of behavior that's implicit and you essentially need to internalize the C standard/compiler behavior to follow. Weak typing, for instance; defaults for memory access/fencing, handling faults, runtime semantics with respect to initialization of the process, cleanup via atexit, and signal handling. Memorable, sure, but hardly explicit.